n.b.k. Video-Forum | Window Projections
The Goethe-Institut Montreal, in cooperation with the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), presents a screening programme of 20 video works from n.b.k Video-Forum’s extensive video art collection, curated by Anna Lena Seiser (Head of Collection n.b.k. Video-Forum).
The individual films will be shown for a week at a time sunset to 2:00 a.m. on the display windows of the Goethe-Institut at 1626 Boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, H2X 2T1, Canada and can be viewed on an indoor screen during the Goethe-Institut's opening hours:
Once Upon a Time
Corinna Schnitt
2006
25:11 min.
Collection Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
With
Once upon a Time, Corinna Schnitt transforms a middle-class living room into a tragicomic setting occupied by cats, dogs, parrots, rabbits, llamas and cows. A camera set up on the floor, scanning the room in a 360-degree rotation, documents how the domesticated order is gradually turned upside down. While the animals make the found space their own, at the same time one cannot help but read their behaviour and interactions as symbolic moments for a social togetherness.
In her video work,
Corinna Schnitt (*1964 in Duisburg / Germany, lives in Braunschweig / Germany) often focuses on seemingly casual but elaborately staged observations of everyday life in the bourgeoisie – its norms, peculiarities, and absurdities – which she ironically illuminates at the interface between documentary and fiction. The relationships of people to each other and to nature are recurring motifs in Schnitt’s videos.
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